Sales of definitive editions of games surge 150% in June
How long should publishers wait before rereleasing their games? Ten years is a bit long, and five years seems too quick. Except these days,...
Why Ubisoft isn’t replacing artists with AI tech for Assassin’s Creed
The Assassin’s Creed franchise is among the biggest of the major blockbusters in the gaming industry, and building them is only getting more complicated...
Ubisoft has record first quarter thanks to games like Rainbow Six and back catalog
Ubisoft released its financial results for the first quarter of the financial year 2018-19, showing sales of $466.5 million for the period. This is...
Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars ditches the wilds of Montana for the red planet
Ubisoft announced Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars today, a new downloadable adventure that takes the series to the red planet. Far Cry 5,...
Fallout 4 director Todd Howard: Giving fans what they want without spreading too thin
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios, noted in a recent talk at the Gamelab event in Barcelona that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...
The DeanBeat: Why outsiders see us better than we can see ourselves
When I learned that Ghost of Tsushima, an authentic samurai swordfighting action-adventure game, was under development at Bellevue, Washington-based based Sucker Punch, I did...
Ubisoft is finished with ‘finite experiences’
Your experience with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege never has to end, and Ubisoft is looking to bring that ongoing, long-lasting relationship to all...
Watch us play The Crew 2 and gain followers by crashing into trees
Ubisoft’s open-world motorsport game The Crew 2 debuted last week, June 29, on PC and consoles, and I’m finally getting around to spending some...
Debbie Bestwick’s roller coaster journey at Worms publisher Team17
Debbie Bestwick has been in the games business for 31 years, and she has known nothing else. Starting with her first job in a...
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny: from Icarus moment to managing 3,000 devs
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny deserve a lot of the credit for why Sony’s PlayStation 4 is sitting at the top of the console...